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Ah yes, A/C sensor sounds logical, cheers Colin.

No sign of any flashing, it's not a lens, it's the same material and colour as the dash. Looks and feels like a button, but doesn't seem to do anything.

Ok, now got a new phone, so here are two pics of dashtop, dark one is N/S, presumably a sensor for the auto lights. lighter coloured one is the mystery one on the O/S. I would look in the handbook, but that's also somewhere in the still to be unpacked pile!

Frozen?

Welcome Iain, if you're going to run an older car, Jap is definitely best. Good luck with yours.

Well, I can't get too sniffy, having carried out a few dodgy "mods" myself when I was younger. And, to be fair, a couple of the above cars look ok to me. However, mostly I am reminded of the "good old days", when Morris Minors with collapsed trunnions were a common sight on our roads. Here's a pic for those too young to remember.

It's relisted, but when I followed the link to the new ad, there were no pictures!!! Stroke of genius???

I guess they put a lot of store on their Allard name, hence the valuation as a piece of history. Their problem is convincing somebody else, not helped, imo, by the car hitting every branch of the ugly tree on the way down.

Agreed on the lpg one, I was going to post a link when I saw it was your area, but the more I read, the less I liked it, so didn't bother. No mot is never a good selling point either.

I'm having similar problems with my campervan, and like you, it's annoying me something rotten. I can't help feeling that they've fitted all manner of clever electrics to our vehicles, but haven't matched the battery capability to cover normal use.

A bloke at tech in the late sixties had a big soft top Allard complete with dicky seat, they were banger money back then, and not that rare a sight on the roads. There was a thread on pistonheads about the Lexus abomination back in 2007, there's a pic of a different car about 13 posts in. http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t=478251 This looks like the car the lad at tech had, it looked slightly better with the hood down, but not a lot!

Well, not the best advert I've ever seen, and not much detail about service history, but if you could get that for around a thousand, and it checks out when you go to pick up and pay, then a reasonable buy probably. Did you check his feedback though? Little bit offputting imo. Personally, I'd wait for better/nearer to crop up, unless you're not in a position to wait.

I have an Autocruise campervan based on a Peugeot Boxer, the handbook states 5 days as the maximum idle time. Any more and it recommends disconnecting the damned battery. Twice now I've gone to start it after a week without running, only to be greeted with a load of messages (none of which is low battery!!) and despite a fairly healthy cranking speed, it fails to start. A quick charge, and all is well. I wonder how the insurance would view the battery being disconnected, with obvious security issues, should it get nicked? Progress eh?

Did you not try the rear cushion method mentioned in the rear sensors thread Yoda?

Short answer...definitely not. Only two ways I would be comfortable running a vehicle with such high potential repair bills, under proper Lexus warranty, or bought cheaply enough to scrap it if it goes badly wrong. I'm assuming neither vehicle would satisfy those conditions?

There are loads of posts/threads about this seller, most not great, to be honest, but make your own mind up by searching the forums using Dudley in the search box.

So, the car is under warranty, and they agree there is a vibration. It's their job to find and fix the fault surely, so why would you be expected to pay them anything at all?

You got me wondering there Mark, so when Mrs V just got back from town I went out and checked. There is virtually no wriggle room on mine, it won't even move enough to see behind, let alone get a drill in there. In retrospect though, I could maybe have got enough movement by just undoing the two leftmost bolts, worth a try I suppose.

Good thinking Batman!!

They seem fine, based on a fairly limited test, will post here if things change, but hopefully not. The seat is a little fiddly, you need to remove 7 bolts, one near each headrest (3), hidden behind flaps. Then four accessed through the gap between back and base.... I used a 12mm socket with long extension and ratchet, wrapped in a plastic bag to protect the seat. There's one each end, and one either side of centre, near the belts. No need to disturb the base.......have fun.

As promised, job now done, and almost exactly as above. I've mounted the unit on the dash top though, running the wires down the edge of the dash, then under the sill plates, I then removed the rear seat back (7 bolts) and ran through an existing hole in to the boot space. I did the same method removing both rear lights, but kept the grommet, having drilled the centre out to accept the cables.... I did need to trim the plastic on the cable end to get both through the hole in the body though, rather than enlarging the holes. The colour seems ok to my eyes, as close as I could hope for really. Thanks again Yoda, as you say, for 13 quid it would be rude not to. ">http://http://s1305.photobucket.com/user/mhed18/media/IMAG0008_zpsf60f6f74.jpg.html'>

No problem. I went for the Navy blue as I thought that looked the most similar to the Chichester blue on our cars, however the navy blue sensors are lighter than they show on that ebay page which is a bit annoying. Both those colours you mention look fine I think. Out of the two i'd probably choose the ocean blue. Let us know how you get on too :) Yep, that was my choice too, hopefully it's as close as it looks on the page. Just ordered a set, will add to this thread when I've fitted them. Thanks again.

Excellent, thanks. One other question, I have the same colour car, so would guess ocean blue or purple blue would be the nearest match, but wondered what colour you have fitted, bearing in mind I'm colour blind, though usually not bad with dark blues.

Yoda400, can you say where you got them from, and how much they cost please? Also, once the job is finished, how they perform. Thanks in advance.

I had a 53 reg Accord tourer 2.2 diesel. Very handy vehicle, and not bad for an oilburner in terms of refinement. Almost goes without saying, but no problems at all in my 2 year ownership, which included passing the 100,000 mile mark. Hope yours serves you as well as mine did.